Two indictments in Chauncey Bailey murder

Indictments came down on Wednesday in the murder of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey, who
was shot on an Oakland, Calif., street in August 2007. An AlamedaCounty grand jury indicted the leader of
the now-closed Your Black Muslim Bakery, Yusuf Bey, on charges that he ordered
Bailey killed.

The Associated Press reported that Alameda County Deputy
District Attorney Chris Lamiero said Antoine Mackey, 23, was also indicted in
connection with the murder. Bey faces charges in connection with two
other murders as well, according
to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Previously, authorities had charged only Devaughndre
Broussard, a former handyman at the bakery, in the Bailey murder. The Chronicle reported that in exchange for
giving testimony to the grand jury on April 20 and 21, Broussard struck a deal
with prosecutors in which he will plead guilty to two counts of voluntary
manslaughter for the killings of Bailey and another man.

CPJ's Frank Smyth pointed out in his recent blog entry on
the case that "irregularities in the Oakland police investigation into the
murder of one of the Bay area's most respected community journalists rivaled
the botched or compromised murder investigations in nations from Mexico
to Mozambique."

Only one in 10 journalist murders
worldwide results in any convictions; just one in 20 results in convictions of
those who ordered the murder.